Mac users will be able to save more time thanks to new multi-user functionality in the latest release of QuickBooks financial software, from Intuit. QuickBooks 2011 for Mac gives small business owners powerful tools with the simplicity they expect from a Mac product. Available Sept. 27, the software can grow with the user’s business, make everyday tasks easier, and create customized business forms and reports.

The software meets the needs of expanding small businesses with new multi-user options and the ability to set user permissions – the most-requested features by previous QuickBooks for Mac users. With the ability to delegate important accounting tasks to others in the company, small business owners can focus on driving their businesses forward.

QuickBooks 2011 for Mac also features new reports and tools to help users track job-related mileage so they can claim the tax write-offs they deserve. Users can also customize reports and forms to reflect their brands and to show the exact data they need to show.

Two new features ensure that QuickBooks 2011 for Mac can grow as a small business expands:
* Multi-User Access allows up to five employees to simultaneously view and edit QuickBooks data files.
* User Permissions lets small businesses determine who can work in up to eight accounting activity areas. In addition, iChat integration allows logged-in users to communicate with each other using QuickBooks to avoid crossed wires.

QuickBooks for Mac 2011 also includes these time-saving features:
* Mileage Tracking enables users to log their job-related auto mileage for reimbursement on customer invoices and at tax time, giving small businesses a better understanding of job costs.
* Register Sorting allows users to find specific transactions faster by easily sorting account registers by date, type, number, amount, and other fields.
* Export Report Data seamlessly to either Excel or Numbers.
* Little Square is a free, online magazine with videos, articles and other resources that helps users learn the ins and outs of QuickBooks for Mac.

Small businesses can spend considerable time manually designing forms to reflect their unique brands. And creating reports with the data they need can be challenging. New customization features and templates in QuickBooks 2011 for Mac make it easy to create sleek and simple forms.

* Layout Designer offers improved, ready-made templates to give users the ability to create customized forms for estimates, invoices and more. New tools simplify image cropping and field alignment to create a unique, professional look.
* Customize Reports allows users to more easily create custom reports with a modern look using familiar Mac-like tools.

QuickBooks 2011 for Mac will be available for purchase beginning Sept. 27 directly from Intuit at www.quickbooks.com/mac, or by calling 888-729-1996. The product will be available widely at Apple stores, Apple.com, Amazon.com, CompUSA, Office Max, Fry’s Electronics, CDW, Mac Zone and MacMall on Oct. 10.

Suggested retail prices are:

* 1-User: $229.95.
* 2-User: $439.95.
* 3-User: $599.95.

Additional seats can be purchased for $209.95 each.

QuickBooks for Mac is part of a family of financial software and services from Intuit that includes:

* QuickBooks Online
* Intuit QuickBooks Pro and Premier
* Intuit QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions

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The Personal financial application, Cha-Ching, a growing favorite among mac users has been bought by its rival, Intuit and merged with the Personal Finance team at Intuit, it’s unknown what will happen with Cha-Ching or if it will be relaunched or merged into Quicken for Mac.

Cha-Ching is an ultra easy to use finance application that provides quick access to your pending transactions like bills, taxes, track inventory of purchased itemes and even provide integration with iPhoto, iSight and iCal.

It’s (was) a real mac application done right.

Out of the 6.9 million iPhones sold during the last quarter, Rogers Wireless accounts for about a quarter of million of them. Rogers has definitely increased its subscribers count and average user revenue after getting Apple’s phone in its inventory. Out of the total $255,000 iPhone 3G sold between the official July 11th launch and the end of September, 191,000 were new subscribers.

Via Mobilewhack

Apple today reported a 6.9 million iphones shipped the last quarter, passing by 3 million the 10 million mark set by Apple when the iPhone was introduced, something that places Apple in a healthy position in a industry that live with a shrinking earning margin.

Apple has done a remarkable job beating RIM, selling 13 million of iPhone and generating enough money to guarantee the innovation at home. Apple has taken the market by storm, created a trend in mobile telephony and mandate what and how to do business, it is growing and surpassing established companies that used to be the innovators, but have seen its business eroded completely by Apple strong presence in that sector.

Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola have shown that, while the were driving the market, today is strongly difficult for them to compete with Apple with the same level of innovation and price.

The problem in competing with the iPhone is that Apple is an unpredictable company, that really know how and when sacrify or risk its business to conquer a broader market, Apple killed the most requested iPod and introduced a refined version, risking to lose sales while trying to provide a better product, this is something nobody would even try, but that move resulted in better sales and better quarter earnings.

So, if rivals are thinking that this success will put Apple to rest while they prepare a iPhone killing strategy, they must wake up now, Apple won’t rest on its laurels and the next iPhone killer is created by Apple itself.

Apple today reported its fiscal fourth quarter ended in September, which goes like this:

Profit: $1.14 Billions
EPS: $1.26
Gross Margin: 34.7%, up from 33.6% YoY
Cash on hand: $25 Billions

Apple shipped 2,611,000 Macintosh® computers during the quarter, representing 21 percent unit growth and 17 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 11,052,000 iPods during the quarter, representing eight percent unit growth and three percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhone units sold were 6,892,000 compared to 1,119,000 in the year-ago-quarter.

“We’re very pleased to have grown revenue 35 percent and to have generated $9.1 billion in cash in fiscal 2008,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead, visibility is low and forecasting is challenging, and as a result we are going to be prudent in predicting the December quarter. We are providing a wide range for our guidance, targeting revenue of $9.0 to $10.0 billion and earnings per diluted share between $1.06 and $1.35.”

Every quarter when Apple reports its earning numbers and when we all think that the stock price will be upgrade based on its recent quarter sales, analysts consensus and estimations drag down the price based on Apple guidance for the next quarter.

Apple always gives lower guidance for the next quarter and this is the opportunity Wall St analysts are always looking to put Apple stock price to its lower, but doing so and not taking into account the present quarter is something without any business logic and don’t make sense to report earnings every quarter if what is really important is the guidance for a quarter that doesn’t even exist.

Analysts should focus on what is delivered in the present quarter, evaluate what went wrong, how much was sold or left in the channel and how much Apple grew in comparison to others in the same sector.

Apple has been doing a tremendous job and this quarter will be more than excellent, but it won’t help its share value to recover from recent month leakage and together with an automatic devaluation from analysts it won’t even gain what it deserves.

Apple has the chance of Steve Jobs’ entire life to take on Adobe and Microsoft in just one shot, how? Easy, if Apple merges itself with Corel, which market value is US$231,552,240, polishes Corel applications to meet the Mac guidelines, drop those applications that don’t represent a good chance to dominate any market segment, puts some resources in Corel Wordperfect, which the last time I used it in the ancient Mac OS 9 was an excellent application that took advantage of all the Apple technologies by that time, Office looked dull when compared with Wordperfect.

1) In the recent transformation of Adobe into a Microsoft-like model delaying mac applications and acting as if the mac platform were a second-class citizen, slow in fixing bugs that plague their mac versions of their suites , slow in adapting to new features of the new Mac OS X, slow in providing Flash version to the iPhone, high prices for softwares with few new features and too many products that overlap each others and only help to create confusion to people, promising Windows only versions of their applications and letting the mac community in the dust.

With a possible Apple-Corel merger, Apple can force Adobe to rethink its mac strategy and invest more time refining their mac applications and at the same time reduce the dependency on Adobe on the Graphic Design market, that has been an important part of Apple’s history.

2) Kill Corel applications for Windows
Merging with Corel gives Apple another victim with the same shot, Apple could terminate further development of Corel applications for Windows based PCs and provide to customers an affordable migration offer to the mac. This could hurt the Windows already damaged reputation because Corel is well known among Windows users, those that won’t jump to any Adobe offering.

This is a real possibility for Apple if Steve Jobs want to go on the offensive, Apple users have been forced to use and pay for half baked applications that don’t use all the features provided by the latest version of Mac OS X, something that has made them slow when compare with the Windows version.

Giveng that Apple’s bank account is full of green bills doing nothing, paying US$231,552,240 for Corel in cash or in Apple’s shares is a wise investment move and gaining powerful applications like Coreldraw, Wordperfect, Paintshop Pro, Painter and others could only helps Apple becomes one of the major application developer in the world, putting Microsoft and Adobe under control.

Apple’s first retail store in Australia will open on George Street in Sydney on Thursday, 19 June at 5:00 p.m. Located in the heart of the city’s shopping district, the Apple Store® Sydney features two floors dedicated to Macs and iPods and a third floor entirely dedicated to service, including the world’s largest Genius Bar for free advice and personal training through Apple’s popular One to One membership.

“We are thrilled to bring the unique Apple retail experience to Australia,” said Ron Johnson, Apple’s senior vice president of Retail. “This breathtaking new store will be the ultimate place for the people of Sydney to shop, learn and be inspired.”

The Apple Store Sydney has more than 80 Macs and 60 iPods available for customers to experience hands-on, as well as an incredible range of third party products. The store’s knowledgeable staff includes more than 125 locally hired Specialists, Creatives and Geniuses who are ready to share their expertise and offer customers personalised instruction on everything from getting started with a Mac® to building their own web page, creating a podcast or making a digital movie.

Every Apple® retail store offers customers great ways to get the most out of their Mac and iPod®, such as free advice at the Genius Bar, popular in-store workshops and special programs for kids. Customers can also book a free appointment with a Personal Shopper to get expert buying advice or help selecting the perfect gift for everyone on their list. The hands-on Apple retail store experience gives customers a chance to test-drive Apple’s entire product line including the all-new MacBook Air™, the world’s thinnest notebook, as well as the widescreen iPod touch.

The Apple Store Sydney also brings Pro Labs to Australia, offering free, in-depth training on Apple’s professional creative applications for digital photography, music production and video editing including Final Cut Pro®.

Nearly 350 million people have visited Apple retail stores since they opened in May 2001. Apple now operates 215 retail stores in six countries including Australia, the US, UK, Japan, Canada and Italy.

The Apple Store Sydney is located at 367 George Street, one block North of the Queen Victoria Building.

Well… I don’t think so, while RIM is reported to be gaining some marketshares away from the iPhone, it is still too soon to declare a winner, this is the second major upgrade for the iPhone while the Blackberry has suffered a dozen or more. It is important to notice that the iPhone that can give RIM some headaches, because is packed with the same or even more business features, those that have helped Blackberry become the king.

Apple has set its sight on the Enterprise and has promised features what will help Apple master this new and complicated market and put some pressure to RIM at the same time.

There is excitement among developers and major corporations are starting to realize that the iPhone is more than another smartphone, it is a platform, some have commited to bring the most compelling suit of applications to meet any business need. IBM, Sun, NetSuite, Salesforce, even Microsoft has been babbling about the possibility of an Office version for the iphone.

Styletap is promising Palm emulation on the iphone, increasing automatically the numbers of business applications available for the device.

So, if we were to declare a winner, there is not better time than the next June 9th, when we will see what Apple has been planning for the iPhone 2.0 and how Blackberry and others response to Apple entrance into the Mobile.

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In a matter of days Apple is rumored to be launching the next major upgrade to the iPhone platform, but a lot of positive information has been traveling the net in anticipation to what is consider to be the greatest Apple Event. This year WWDC is going to be an iPhoneWorld and with all the positive news about the platform there is not doubt that is a good time to buy some Apple shares before its price reached the $250.

Here is some of the good news about Apple:
1. Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (June 9-15)
For the first time ever this event is sold out, this is where iPhone developers are going to show the world what they have been cooking since Apple launched the iPhone SDK in March. Stay tuned for amazing games and applications that will rock the mobile business, expect big names jumping on the wagon.

2. Haptic technology licensed by Apple (rumor)
Palluxo.com is reporting that Apple is in talk to licensed Haptic Technology from Immersion Corporation, the haptic technology provides interfaces the user via the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations and/or motions to the user.

3. GPS on the iPhone
It is rumored that Broadcom will be the supplier of GPS for the iPhone, so if you lik the Google Maps in your iPhone just wait for GPS technology applied to the iphone and presented the Apple’s way. It is 100% guaranteed that this is going to be the most amazing GPS feature added to any mobile phone..

4. Handwriting Technology into the iPhone
Apple is rumored to be adding handwriting technology to the iphone. A chinese developer, Hanwang.com.cn created the application to allow Chinese character input on the iPhone, but the program works equally well with English input

5. Multi-Touch™ is a trademark of Apple Inc.
As noted by Macdailynews.com, Multi-Touch™ is a trademark of Apple Inc. and it gives Apple more guns to battle the icopiers.

http://www.macdailynews.com

6. More countries added to the iPhone distribution.
The last two months Apple has been signing agreements with Phone Carriers all over the world. That puts in the hands of millions of customers in Latin America, Africa, Europe and China.

7. .Mac = new Mobile Me
It’s said that Apple will relaunch the .Mac internet service and turn it into a mobile destination for iPhone users. There is a rumor that the domain www.me.com was bought by Apple.

8. Safari and Mac OS marketshare up, up
Net Applications stats for May shows two interesting thing, Mac OS marketshare is up to its all time high:

Net Applications’ May 2008 Operating System Stats:
Microsoft Windows: 91.13% (vs. MAY 2006: 95.09%)
- XP: 72.12%
- Vista: 15.26%
Apple Macintosh: 7.83% (vs. MAY 2006: 4.43%)
- Intel: 5.02%
- PowerPC: 2.81%
Linux: 0.68% (vs. MAY 2006: 0.40%)
Apple iPhone: 0.16%
Apple iPod: 0.03%
Playstation: 0.03%
Nintendo Wii: 0.01%
SunOS: 0.01%

And the Browser stats for May reveals that Safari is doing a good job too

Net Applications’ May 2008 Web Browser Stats:
Microsoft Internet Explorer: 73.75% (vs. MAY 2006: 84.20%)
Mozilla Firefox: 18.41% (vs. MAY 2006: 10.55%)
Apple Safari: 6.25% (vs. MAY 2006: 3.26%)
Opera: 0.71%
Netscape: 0.62%
Mozilla: 0.08%
Opera Mini: 0.05%
Playstation: 0.03%
Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer: 0.02%
Konqueror: 0.02%
Blazer: 0.02%
WebTV: 0.01%
ACCESS NetFront: 0.01%
BlackBerry: 0.00%